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#29
#29
Bigg Tazz said:
My thoughts are, yes we are in a type of rebuilding year, with so many new faces you can't help but assume this, Before ucla's kick off I'd already figured on 8-4 or 7-5 season and hopefully a bowl victory.Selfishly hoping for a Liberty Bowl so I can go in person
This is still possible and very probable.
Yes, we all hoped crompton would rise up and be the leader he should be, he's only been their 3 yrs ? Well this didn't happen.
We now fall back onto our senior back, knowing in our heart he wont let us down
and he'll come thru for us and well again we were fooled as he has had a couple of miscues.Some his fault some not.
Now we're left with our wonderful D, they've kept us in every game and given our offense the chance to win. Only for our offense to let us/them down and not do it.
So what are we left with...people crying for CPF's head, people wanting to hire coaches that have just been fired and yes a rebuilding year.
Just in case you get your wish and a new coach, how long will you give him to win?
2 years is all it took bama to be in national title talks so is that reasonable?
I doubt that'll happen and we'll go thru a rebuilding "period" not a year.
So just be ready for Vandy status and have 2 or 3 win seasons.
Just becareful what you ask for, you might get it!

All I ask is have faith in the team and that coach will turn it around, maybe you hate on him so much because down deep you know he will do just that and we'll be stuck with one of the winningest SEC coaches ever, that'll suck
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I believe that's 2 years since the newest coach arrived. When is the last time that bama was relevant on the national scene?
 
#30
#30
Let me clarify what I said.

If the SEC were a conference like the Pac-10 or the Big MAC, I'd be getting awfully annoyed with the lack of a conference title. In fact, one every two or three years would be the minimum.

But this isn't the Pac-10 or the Big MAC. How many years has UT honestly been the best in the east, let alone the best in the conference? Was UT even the best in the east in 1997 and 1998?

There hasn't been a year when this team was head-and-shoulders above everyone in else. In fact, there hasn't been a year when the team was even shoulders above everyone else. That's the nature of this conference. Most years Florida has been as good or better, and if they've been down then Georgia has taken their place.

If the recent history had seen a bunch of 8-4 or 7-5 teams in the conference championship games, it'd be one thing. But it's too strong to reasonably expect a conference title every two or three years.
 
#31
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Ohio Vol said:
But this isn't the Pac-10 or the Big MAC. How many years has UT honestly been the best in the east, let alone the best in the conference? Was UT even the best in the east in 1997 and 1998?

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A 15-1 SEC record says yes.
 
#32
#32
chavisut said:
A 15-1 SEC record says yes.
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What would happen if both the 1997 and 1998 games against Florida were replayed 100 times?

Consider that in 1998, Florida had five turnovers (including one on the goal line) and a series of essentially unlucky breaks. And yet it still took a long converted FG by Jeff Hall and a short miss by Collins Cooper to pull out a 20-17 victory.

At best, a 100-game series would be split 50-50, and I can't see UT winning any of those in a blowout the way I can see Florida doing it.
 
#33
#33
If we have a losing season this year, which looks probable, that will be 2 out of last 4 seasons. You can't do that at many schools and survive. Tennessee is no different.
 
#34
#34
Ohio Vol said:
What would happen if both the 1997 and 1998 games against Florida were replayed 100 times?

Consider that in 1998, Florida had five turnovers (including one on the goal line) and a series of essentially unlucky breaks. And yet it still took a long converted FG by Jeff Hall and a short miss by Collins Cooper to pull out a 20-17 victory.

At best, a 100-game series would be split 50-50, and I can't see UT winning any of those in a blowout the way I can see Florida doing it.
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Good thing this isn't baseball :)
 
#35
#35
chavisut said:
Good thing this isn't baseball :)
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True enough. Besides, if it were, can you imagine ESPN coverage?

"Let's talk about this 100-game series between Tennessee and Florida. To me, it's just like Red Sox-Yankees. Your thoughts, Peter Gammons?"

"I agree. Just like Red Sox-Yankees. Speaking of which, it's only 74 more days until their next epic tilt. Can we talk about that until that day comes?"

"Of course, we are ESPN after all."
 
#36
#36
Wow, some misguided statistics and people are now beginning to sip the kool-aid again. For goodness sakes, he's got a 67% winning percentage since 2001. We've been getting blown out by good teams and squeaking by Vandy, Ky, South Carolina, Air Force, etc.

Look at the trend folks, we are on the downhill slant, wake up and smell the peaches.
 
#37
#37
Ohio Vol said:
What would happen if both the 1997 and 1998 games against Florida were replayed 100 times?

Consider that in 1998, Florida had five turnovers (including one on the goal line) and a series of essentially unlucky breaks. And yet it still took a long converted FG by Jeff Hall and a short miss by Collins Cooper to pull out a 20-17 victory.

At best, a 100-game series would be split 50-50, and I can't see UT winning any of those in a blowout the way I can see Florida doing it.
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but they werent replayed, and like he said that's why this is football
 
#38
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Ohio Vol said:
What would happen if both the 1997 and 1998 games against Florida were replayed 100 times?

Consider that in 1998, Florida had five turnovers (including one on the goal line) and a series of essentially unlucky breaks. And yet it still took a long converted FG by Jeff Hall and a short miss by Collins Cooper to pull out a 20-17 victory.

At best, a 100-game series would be split 50-50, and I can't see UT winning any of those in a blowout the way I can see Florida doing it.
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You seem to forget that the 1998 Florida team you're treating as a juggernaut lost to a team quarterbacked by Marcus Outzen.
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#39
#39
i think honestly the biggest thing has been UF's national championship. Simply just that success by a rival makes every fan resent their coach because there's not any trash you can talk back to those fans. The fact that bama or uga keeps getting talked up for them too this year hasnt helped either. As sports fans, they just want to be able to talk smack and brag, but they just can't...
 
#40
#40
Whatever you call this year, rebuilding or not, our sophomore class is going to win some serious football games whether they get a QB, a coaching staff, or none of the above.
 
#41
#41
I don't buy into this luck stuff. Florida didn't get unlucky against us in '98 nor did we get lucky against Arky. Neither of those teams did what was needed to score more points and win the game. And there is no basis to say that wouldn't happen again and agiain if they played 100 more times. The bottom line is the team with the most points at the end of the game played the better game. Period. That is what I believe.
 
#42
#42
utmba93 said:
Whatever you call this year, rebuilding or not, our sophomore class is going to win some serious football games whether they get a QB, a coaching staff, or none of the above.
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Our '06 class was great. However, six other SEC teams finished with top 10 classes that year.
 
#43
#43
chavisut said:
Our '06 class was great. However, six other SEC teams finished with top 10 classes that year.
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Yea, but this is one class for which the stars were right for our guys. And, we'll compete at least one year with them.

Point taken though. It would be nice to get another elite class to supplement them next year, no doubt about that.
 
#44
#44
utmba93 said:
Whatever you call this year, rebuilding or not, our sophomore class is going to win some serious football games whether they get a QB, a coaching staff, or none of the above.
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This team is absolutely loaded with upperclassmen. Calling this a rebuilding year is outrageous.
 
#45
#45
kptvol said:
This team is absolutely loaded with upperclassmen. Calling this a rebuilding year is outrageous.
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yeah, but we dont really have any major playmakers save jones and berry. It's nice to have upperclassman, it usually makes a solid team, but we have no major gamebreaker playmakers, especially in the receving core and outside of our secondary
 
#46
#46
TrueOrange said:
yeah, but we dont really have any major playmakers save jones and berry. It's nice to have upperclassman, it usually makes a solid team, but we have no major gamebreaker playmakers, especially in the receving core and outside of our secondary
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We have a returning 1000 yard rusher, a line that is supposedly stellar, and a the SEC's leading receiver last season. Hard to ask for a whole lot more.
 
#49
#49
kptvol said:
This team is absolutely loaded with upperclassmen. Calling this a rebuilding year is outrageous.
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Just to save you some embarassment in real life, you should know that your reading skills are not your strength. I've read enough of your posts to have realized that. That likely extends to your thinking skills as well. But who cares?
 
#50
#50
utmba93 said:
Just to save you some embarassment in real life, you should know that your reading skills are not your strength. I've read enough of your posts to have realized that. That likely extends to your thinking skills as well. But who cares?
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I would be willing to bet everything I own my reading and thinking skills far exceed yours. Go back to making fun of Urban Meyer and puffing up a pathetic has-been. It suits your intelligence better.

And after re-reading your sentence I understand your intended meaning. Your wording left the statement open for two interpretations.
 
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